Mark Aldridge
@markaldridge.info
'Agathologist', H.R.F. Keating Award winner and Associate Professor of Screen Histories. Consultant for documentaries and other projects. Co-host and co-producer of The Swinging Christies. 📧 Agathachristieonscreen@gmail.com 🏳️🌈
Why not treat yourself this Christmas and join @christietime.bsky.social at Burgh Island for a talk all about #AgathaChristie and the festive season? Stay the night or book in for afternoon tea on Sunday 14 December... www.burghisland.com/a-christie-c...
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Why not treat yourself this Christmas and join @christietime.bsky.social at Burgh Island for a talk all about #AgathaChristie and the festive season? Stay the night or book in for afternoon tea on Sunday 14 December... www.burghisland.com/a-christie-c...
The programme for the Tenerife Agatha Christie Festival is out! Looking forward to speaking at several events, including offering some insights into what we can learn about writing from Agatha Christie and our first @christietime.bsky.social talk outside of the UK! #AgathaChristie
November 1, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The programme for the Tenerife Agatha Christie Festival is out! Looking forward to speaking at several events, including offering some insights into what we can learn about writing from Agatha Christie and our first @christietime.bsky.social talk outside of the UK! #AgathaChristie
A spooky Swinging Christies episode out today - includes apple bobbing! But will either of us become a victim? Find out on your @christietime.bsky.social feed #AgathaChristie #Halloween
October 26, 2025 at 9:24 AM
A spooky Swinging Christies episode out today - includes apple bobbing! But will either of us become a victim? Find out on your @christietime.bsky.social feed #AgathaChristie #Halloween
This would have been a HUGE story for days or weeks 25 years ago.
Today: So few people watched the draw that the reporting resorts to "It is understood that viewers..."
Today: So few people watched the draw that the reporting resorts to "It is understood that viewers..."
October 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
This would have been a HUGE story for days or weeks 25 years ago.
Today: So few people watched the draw that the reporting resorts to "It is understood that viewers..."
Today: So few people watched the draw that the reporting resorts to "It is understood that viewers..."
An exhausting and difficult week, but nice to end with the official launch of the Mr Men/Agatha Christie crossover books. They're gorgeous! #AgathaChristie #MrMen
October 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
An exhausting and difficult week, but nice to end with the official launch of the Mr Men/Agatha Christie crossover books. They're gorgeous! #AgathaChristie #MrMen
Watched the final Mission Impossible film and struck by the lack of dialogue. It could be Wings! Just a smidge less gay.
October 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Watched the final Mission Impossible film and struck by the lack of dialogue. It could be Wings! Just a smidge less gay.
On the train to Birmingham ready to discuss Jessica Fletcher, Miss Marple and murder
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
On the train to Birmingham ready to discuss Jessica Fletcher, Miss Marple and murder
Looking forward to returning to HarperCollins' A Christie for Christmas event on 20 November. I'll be chairing an event about murder mysteries on page and screen with Ben Miller and @chrischibnall.bsky.social. A brilliant selection of guests - tickets on sale now! #AgathaChristie
October 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Looking forward to returning to HarperCollins' A Christie for Christmas event on 20 November. I'll be chairing an event about murder mysteries on page and screen with Ben Miller and @chrischibnall.bsky.social. A brilliant selection of guests - tickets on sale now! #AgathaChristie
And here is its single illustration in the Mail
September 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
And here is its single illustration in the Mail
Maybe I'll go to a physical shop to find my new office chair, I think to myself... Does John Lewis actually sell *any* at these prices?!
September 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Maybe I'll go to a physical shop to find my new office chair, I think to myself... Does John Lewis actually sell *any* at these prices?!
And there's a separate 4k Endless Night release too...
September 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
And there's a separate 4k Endless Night release too...
The news is out! Very excited to say that next year I'm going to Cabot Cove itself, Mendocino in California, to speak at the Murder, She Wrote Festival! A dream come true! #MurderSheWrote
September 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The news is out! Very excited to say that next year I'm going to Cabot Cove itself, Mendocino in California, to speak at the Murder, She Wrote Festival! A dream come true! #MurderSheWrote
I was happy to be interviewed for The #AgathaChristie Collection, which is coming out on 4k Blu-ray. I also wrote an essay for the booklet. It includes Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Death on the Nile (1978), The Mirror Crack'd (1980) & Evil Under the Sun (1982) www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=37081
September 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I was happy to be interviewed for The #AgathaChristie Collection, which is coming out on 4k Blu-ray. I also wrote an essay for the booklet. It includes Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Death on the Nile (1978), The Mirror Crack'd (1980) & Evil Under the Sun (1982) www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=37081
John here is on Bob's Full House (end of 1984), and he's a Doctor Who fan. I think someone remembered him a few years later... #DoctorWho
September 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM
John here is on Bob's Full House (end of 1984), and he's a Doctor Who fan. I think someone remembered him a few years later... #DoctorWho
Working on my @agathafestival.bsky.social talk. Last few tickets available! Got some lovely rare treats lined up... #AgathaChristie www.ticketsource.co.uk/agathafestiv...
August 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Working on my @agathafestival.bsky.social talk. Last few tickets available! Got some lovely rare treats lined up... #AgathaChristie www.ticketsource.co.uk/agathafestiv...
Got a full day off tomorrow
August 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Got a full day off tomorrow
It might be more than a month away but several events are about to sell about for the International Agatha Christie Festival - including my chat about Witness for the Prosecution and the first ever live episode of The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social #AgathaChristie
August 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
It might be more than a month away but several events are about to sell about for the International Agatha Christie Festival - including my chat about Witness for the Prosecution and the first ever live episode of The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social #AgathaChristie
Love Agatha Christie AND hideous covers that will haunt your nightmares? This eBay auction has you sorted! #AgathaChristie
July 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Love Agatha Christie AND hideous covers that will haunt your nightmares? This eBay auction has you sorted! #AgathaChristie
Very pleased to get a copy of this obscure one-act play, 'Tea for Three'. It's a dramatisation of Christie's short story 'Accident', written by Margery Vosper, whose brother Frank adapted Philomel Cottage as Love from a Stranger. The stories have quite a bit in common! #AgathaChristie
July 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Very pleased to get a copy of this obscure one-act play, 'Tea for Three'. It's a dramatisation of Christie's short story 'Accident', written by Margery Vosper, whose brother Frank adapted Philomel Cottage as Love from a Stranger. The stories have quite a bit in common! #AgathaChristie
God I love the inter-library loan system. Needed to have a look at this long-OOP volume for something I'm working on and it was here in a few days, for free and with no fuss.
July 17, 2025 at 7:24 AM
God I love the inter-library loan system. Needed to have a look at this long-OOP volume for something I'm working on and it was here in a few days, for free and with no fuss.
Back from a morning's filming in London to find this has arrived - what a gorgeous illustration of one of my favourite stories! Ladies Home Journal, January 1932 #AgathaChristie #Poirot
July 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Back from a morning's filming in London to find this has arrived - what a gorgeous illustration of one of my favourite stories! Ladies Home Journal, January 1932 #AgathaChristie #Poirot
Sorry to report I've entered my vest era
July 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Sorry to report I've entered my vest era
Making progress on a forthcoming book - always nice to tick off another 10k...
June 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Making progress on a forthcoming book - always nice to tick off another 10k...